TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Sweathouse

Crosshill, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Crosshill, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crosshill
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sweat Ho. (Disused)
Coordinates
54.06452, -8.11900
SMR number
RO002-024----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and built into an artificial scarp on a S-facing slope with a deserted farmstead just to the W. There are two conjoined chambers, the E is rectangular (int. dims.1.25m x 1.1m; H 1m) with a lintelled roof and with an entrance at S (Wth 0.45m; H 0.65). It is connected by an open hatch (Wth 0.85m; H 0.2m; L 0.7m) to the W chamber which is D-shaped (int. dims. 1.2m N-S; 0.8m E-W; H 1.2m) with a corbelled roof and which has an entrance (Wth 0.4m; H 0.5-0.85m; L 1.15m) at S. Sweathouse (RO002-025----) is c. 240m to the ENE.

See the attached external (003) and internal (016) views.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Sweathouse in Roscommon All County Roscommon records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map